Nonprofit Brings Solar to Low-income Homes in Valley
GRID — which is based in Oakland and has an office in Riverside — has been active in the Coachella Valley, with nearly 250 installations over the last three years. Friday's installation was just its second in Palm Springs, and the first to involve local trainees.
Lordstown Solar Installation Project Largest in Western Hemisphere for GM
In addition to being home to the Chevrolet Cruze, GM’s best-selling car, the largest GM plant in the U.S. and the most productive in North America, Lordstown also will be the GM plant with the largest solar installation project in the Western Hemisphere, GM announced Tuesday. Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals of Youngstown, will provide the racks to hold the solar panels.
8minutenergy Taps Gehrlicher Solar America To Build California Projects
8minutenergy Renewables has selected Gehrlicher Solar America Corp. (GSAC) to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for three solar projects located in Kern County, Calif.
Borrego Solar and sPower Break Ground on Suffolk County Solar Project
Borrego Solar Systems, a designer, developer, installer and financier of grid-tied solar photovoltaic systems (and a Solar Power World Top 400 contractor), and sPower (Sustainable Power Group), a renewable energy provider, are commencing construction on a solar project in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.
Hanwha Q CELLS and Astrum Solar Reach Solar Module Supply Agreement
Astrum Solar and Hanwha Q CELLS have concluded a module supply agreement to serve the US residential market in 2015.
Cecil County Public Schools go Solar
Standard Solar, Inc., a leader in the full service development, construction, integration, financing, and installation of solar electric systems, today announced the construction of a 2.5 megawatt solar photovoltaic system for Cecil County Public Schools. The project is currently under construction and projected to be completed by year end. It will feature multiple solar panel arrays that will help reduce the school system’s energy costs.
Largest Solar Farm of Its Kind in North America Complete
AllEarth Renewables and Claire Solar Partners have announced the completion of a 2.2MW solar tracker farm in South Burlington, Vt. The project is the largest in North America to utilize distributed inverters and dual-axis trackers to maximize energy production.
groSolar Speaking at Maryland Clean Energy Summit
The panel session "Commercial & Industrial Customer: Seeing is Believing" will be held on Wednesday October 15, 2014 at 2:15pm during the Maryland Clean Energy Summit. The session is sponsored by groSolar and includes panelist Tim Heinle, groSolar's Director of Business Development.
Lincoln Center Turns to Solar Power to Provide Some of Its Bright Light
Lincoln Center officials say the 36 solar panels — on the roof of the Rose Building, on West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue — represent another step in their campaign to go green.... The solar array was arranged through the same company behind the wind-power contract, Green Mountain Energy, and was paid for with federal and state grants. A $100,000 donation also came from Sun Club, a program run by Green Mountain that donates solar power to nonprofit groups.
Women Join Together in Nonprofit to Advance Solar — and Women
SEIA CEO Rhone Resch set the stage for the work ahead of Women in Solar, quoting from recent Solar Foundation data that shows that women make up less than 19% of the solar workforce.... SEIA has signed on as a founding sponsor of Women in Solar and has been joined recently by generous gifts from Clean Power Finance, SunPower, and ViaSys.